How to Live With Grief

How to Live With Grief is a mini-zine in an envelope – with a few extra bits and pieces. The zine presents a method of how to live with grief. It was made during a stressful and solemn period of the artists and zine-makers life when they were trying to cope with great loss. The mini-zine does not propose a solution to grief, or a guide to going through the grieving process. It just presents how grieving can occur in many ways and how space and time can help.

The zine features words and illustrations. It is contained in an envelope to emphasise the personal and careful way the zine was put together.

You will like How to Live With Grief if you enjoy indie comics, unique stories and personal narratives. It takes elements of Diary Comics, Perzines and Graphic Medicine to give a careful, distinctive and intimate approach to comic book storytelling in a DIY and self-published format.

You can buy the zine here

  • An 8 page mini-zine in an envelope
  • Extra writing drawings and objects are in the envelope
  • Full-colour
  • Hand made and bound
  • An honest and personal comic book zine

Voices With Impact Serious Mental Illness Film Festival – Winner Short Film Award

My short film What it Feels Like won the Short Film Award at the Voices With Impact Film Festival. The festival showcases films about serious Mental Illness. As someone who lives with a serious mental illness and endevours to create art, it means a lot to win an award like this. What it Feels Like can also be streamed online with the Voices with Impact Festival. Info at the festival website.

Glasgow Comic Con – 1 June 2024

I am doing a lot less events this year, as I am concentrating on new work. I expect I will be doing even less next year as well. Therefore I am pleased to take part in Glasgow Comic Con on 1 June 2024. The event is taking place at The Royal Concert Hall, Killermont Street, Glasgow G2 3NY

I will have no new comics or zines for sale, but this will be the last time in quite a while that I will be selling my comic and zines in person in Glasgow. I plan on doing a lot more comics and zine events in 2026. I had a busy 2022 and 2023 and I want to come back with lots of new stuff.

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Edinburgh Zine Fest 2024 – Sunday 11 February 2024

I will be taking part in Edinburgh Zine Fest 2024 on Sunday 11 February 2024. The event will take place at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh. This will be my third time tabling at this zine fest and it is one of the best. I have no new zines on sale, but I will be selling some old ones that I have not had on my table in a few years. I will have copies of my How To Deal With Rejection series . There are 3 issues in total and info on these are below. Edinburgh Zine Fest will be my first event of 2024.

How To Deal With Rejection – Issue 1

How To Deal With Rejection – Issue 2

How To Deal With Rejection – Issue 3

Portfolio Update

I have updated this website with some extra information on my work and a more concise list of exhibitions and events. In the past few years I have been to many Zine Fests and Comic Cons. I have not released any new comics since Conversations with LGBTQ+ Elders and I have mostly been concentrating on my animation work. In late 2022 I released the Coming Out Autistic short film and it has gone onto screen in over 40 international film festivals and win the Best Animation Award at the Marvels of Media Awards.

My plan for 2024 is to complete a new film and hopefully put out a zine at the end of the year. I have been working busy, but I will use this blog to post updates on events.

New Comic – Conversations with LGBTQ+ Elders

Conversations with LGBTQ+ Elders is a comic about activism and protest as you get older. It tells the story of Will and Anthony, two older gay men as they get ready to attend a protest. The story features interviews with people who know the couple and we learn how they maintain their need to stand up and be recognised.

Conversations with LGBTQ+ Elders takes an experimental and non-linear look at comic book storytelling. The story is an intimate and personal one that shows the need for love and companionship. We see two people who have stuck together throughout their lives and overcome many problems. This inspires their activism and we see this passion within the pages of the comic.

Conversation with LGBTQ+ Elders is 32 pages long and in full colour. You can buy the comic here.